On 28 July, at the base of an oak tree on the edge of a wood bordering Little Inholmes Farm, Tony Hutson saw and later identified this fungus as Inonotus dryadeus. It is about 30 cm wide, lumpy and exuding amber drops from tubes in the upper surface. It is also known as oak bracket, weeping polypore or weeping conk. It is said to be quite widespread but rare. It is, unsurpisingly, inedible but who was cr. (Jacqui Hutson)